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[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 88: I wish I was lifting a few with you to-night.
at few, a, n.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 105: I am up against it right Al and I don’t know where I am going to head in at.
at up against, phr.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 43: I says Now I guess you’re sorry you didn’t let me hit. That sent him right up in the air and he bawled me awful.
at up in the air (adj.) under air, n.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 176: You should of heard me ball Florrie out when she got home [...] We had it hot and heavy.
at hot and heavy, phr.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 148: Say, I wish I could of heard what they said to that baby on the bench.
at baby, n.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 106: If you go in and talk right to Comiskey I believe he will give you $3000 but you must be sure you [...] don’t go and ball it all up.
at ball up, v.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 43: I says Now I guess you’re sorry you didn’t let me hit. That sent him right up in the air and he bawled me awful.
at bawl out, v.1
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 33: He gave one of the youngsters an awful bawling out for something he done in the game.
at bawling out, n.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 143: I forgot all about the ball game and I cut loose at his bean.
at bean, n.1
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 100: I and Allen have got to beat it out of the house and stay out of the way.
at beat it, v.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 67: I am a bellhop and the big rube with me is nothing but a pitcher.
at bellhop (n.) under bell, n.1
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 52: I will get back in the big league and show them birds something.
at big league, n.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 169: It is a cinch that none of them bonehead nurses would have knew what to do.
at boneheaded, adj.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 51: Bill Sullivan [...] told me not to pull no boner by refuseing to go where they sent me.
at pull a boner (v.) under boner, n.3
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 105: I was just going to brace him about the California trip when he got away and went back to the meeting.
at brace, v.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 113: I am flat broke Al and all I am asking you is to send me enough money to pay my fair to Bedford.
at flat broke, adj.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 55: She was all broke up and wanted to go along with me.
at broke up, adj.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 25: Well Al we been in this little berg now a couple of days.
at burg, n.1
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 34: He is a bush outfielder from the New England League.
at bush, adj.1
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 124: You can cut out the monkey business and drink water when you are thirsty or else you can go up to Milwaukee and drownd yourself in one of them brewrys.
at monkey business, n.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 43: Some day he will lose his temper and bust you one.
at bust, v.1
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 75: In her letter she called me a cheap skate and she inclosed a one-cent stamp and two twos.
at cheapskate, n.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 38: So I guess my job is cinched.
at cinch, v.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 110: Well Al I was scared to tell Florrie I was cleaned out.
at cleaned (out), adj.
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 140: He says something back but it was not no hot comeback like mine.
at comeback, n.1
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 87: I made some crack about Violet and Hazel just to tease Florrie.
at crack, n.1
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 110: So I walked away from him without taking a crack at him.
at take a crack at (v.) under crack, n.1
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 193: I says I would like to get an other crack at them.
at get a crack at (v.) under crack, n.1
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 97: I am going to give it to her for New Year’s present and I guess that will make Allen feel like a dirty dooce.
at deuce, n.2
[US] R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 97: Allen has not got nothing but a dinky curve ball and a fast ball that looks like my slow one.
at dinky, adj.1
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